Paralegal life? How is it?

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Firm lifer here and it’s 🫠😬🥴😵😮‍💨🫩🫢😳🤬😤🥺😩😖🥳🤩🤪🙃 Hope that helps

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Massive industry with like 100 different types of paralegal, all extremely different

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I have almost 30 years experience and like life a lot of surprises, stress, tears, happiness, and countless blessings. I wouldn’t have changed a thing and I’m still working, hopefully to the day I die! Count your blessings and roll with the flow!!! Keep smiling 🤣

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I had a 300 hour month in July that I will physically be recovering from for the rest of August.

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Yes, Biglaw. Finance.

I've had wildly different experiences at different firms. It can be actually interesting and rewarding or totally boring and torturous. Just depends.

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Are looking for insight into in-house? gov? Or Firm life?

29 years in. Still loving it!

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